SECC Officially Announces the First Version of its Smart University Reference Architecture (SURA)

The Software Engineering Competence Center (SECC) officially announces the first version of its Smart University Reference Architecture (SURA). SURA is designed to represent the road map for the digital transformation towards smart universities with their capabilities and services. The model focuses on 6 main pillars: Smart Learning, Smart Assessment, Smart Classroom, Smart Support, Smart Operations, and Smart Campus. With a total of 38 capabilities, SURA represents the practical framework for developing the different aspects in the smart university. The model has been developed according to the TOGAF enterprise architecture framework. COBIT framework is also used to align between the university strategies and the proposed development themes.

Driven by its role to raise community awareness about the recent ICT trends, SECC team participated at some of the community events that took place during the past period.

In Cairo ICT 2018, held on 25-28 November, SECC participated with a talk on the opportunities of using Blockchain technology for startups.

In IEEE GCIoT 2018, held on 5-7 December, Dr. Haitham Hamza - R&D Department Manager organized an industry panel on "IoT Local Use cases" with participation from industry leaders in Egypt presenting their practical experience from implementing real IoT solutions in local market in Egypt.

In INFOS2018, held on 10-12 December, SECC participated with 3 tutorials covering process improvement and new development methodologies, innovation management, and Blockchain technology.

Africa and Middle East Conference on Software Engineering (AMECSE) is a series of conferences started in 2014 as the first forum in the region for practitioners and researchers to present and share the most recent innovations, trends, experiences and concerns in the field of Software Engineering. Every edition of AMECSE fosters a theme that is deemed important for tackling pressing challenges in our region.

AMECSE 2018 is the fourth edition of AMECSE conference series. This edition was organized in-cooperation with the ACM SIGSOFT. The theme of this edition was Software Innovation for Digital Transformation.

It is worth mentioning that several distinguished entities sponsored the conference like IBM, VMware and BBI consultancy companies as well as NGOs like CIT and EITESAL among others.
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SECC organized DevOpsDays Cairo 2018 Conference to mark Cairo as the first Arab city to run Devopsdays

SECC organized DevOpsDays Cairo 2018 Conference on 17 September 2018 and which happened for the first time in Egypt and the Arab World.

The organizing committee consisted of professionals from SECC, DXC Technology, IBM Egypt and Orange Labs; with the assistance of professionals from the international brand "devopsdays".

The event was held at Grand Nile hotel and was attended by 250+ ICT professionals from 153 organizations representing different sectors as ICT, government, finance, academia, and manufacturing. The program consisted of remarkable talks from Egypt, Austria, Poland and a notable talk by Andrew Clay Shaffer from USA. Andrew Shafer is one of the founders of devopsdays and a polymath of DevOps.

Devopsdays is a worldwide series of technical conferences covering topics of software development, IT infrastructure operations, and the intersection between them. Each event is run by volunteers from the local area. It was organized in more than 90 cities since 2009 till Cairo made it in 2018, to be the first Arab city to run such an internationally recognized brand.

All presentations have been recorded and will be accessible to the whole community. A notification will be sent with the access information once videos have been uploaded.

SECC, the sole ESTB Examination Institute/Certification Body for the ISTQB® certificates in Egypt, will run the new ISTQB® CTFL Syllabus 2018 alongside the ISTQB® CTFL Syllabus 2011. Exams of 2011 version will continue to be offered till the sunset period of 3 June 2019. After this date, no 2011 version exams will be offered.

The ISTQB® General Assembly has approved the new 2018 version of the ISTQB® Certified Tester Foundation Level syllabus for general release. Foundation Level is core to the ISTQB® Certified Tester Scheme providing essential understanding and knowledge to anyone involved in testing. The updates reflect market feedback and the current state of the software testing industry.